Christi+Roe


 * SUMMARY: "Christi," age 29, died in 1972 after saline got into her bloodstream during a legal abortion, triggering fatal clotting problems.**

"Christi" Roe is one of the women Life Dynamics notes on their "Blackmun Wall" of women killed by [|legalized abortion].

She was 29 years old and 20 weeks pregnant when she underwent a safe, legal saline abortion. A saline abortion involves putting a strong salt solution into the amniotic fluid. The fetus swallows and inhales the saline, which then causes massive internal hemorrhaging and death. When the fetus dies, the woman goes into labor.

Somehow during the process of the abortion, amniotic fluid got into Cristi's bloodstream, causing an [|embolism]. This in turn triggered a blood clotting disorder called disseminated intravascular coagupopathy (DIC), which killed her.

As you can see from the graph below, abortion deaths were falling dramatically before legalization. This steep fall had been in place for decades. To argue that legalization lowered abortion mortality simply isn't supported by the data.

Source: “Fatal Pulmonary Embolism During Legal Induced Abortion in the United States from 1972-1985,” Lawson, Herschel W., MD, Atrash, Hani K., MD, MPH, Franks, Adele L., MD, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 162, No. 4, April 1990, p. 986-990

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